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14460enThu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:50:05 PDTwebmaster@well.com60inkwell.vue.482: 30th Anniversary stories: What lengths did you go to in order to meet a fellow WELL member?http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/482/30th-Anniversary-stories-What-le-page01.html
In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the WELL next week, we
wanted to hear people's stories about their experiences over the
years. <br /><br /> In this first of these topics, please tell us about meeting other
WELL folks face to face. what did you do? Why did you want to meet
them? What was it like meeting the person behind the keyboard?
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.481: R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell, Transcendencehttp://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/481/R-U-Sirius-and-Jay-Cornell-Trans-page01.html
Inkwell welcomes R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell, authors of the
_Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and
the Singularity._<br /><br /> _Transcendence_ is a mind-stretching and entertaining look at the
international movement that advocates the use of science and
technology to overcome the *natural* limitations experienced by
humanity. In nearly ninety A-Z entries, &quot;Transcendence&quot; provides a
multilayered and often witty look at the accelerating advances in
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, genomics, information
technology, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, neuroscience,
robotics, virtual worlds, and much more, that are making
transhumanism a reality.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.480: Liz Fisher and Robert Matney, Deus Ex Machinahttp://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/480/Liz-Fisher-and-Robert-Matney-Deu-page01.html
We'd like to welcome Liz Fisher and Robert Matney, founding
directors of Whirligig Productions. They launched their company with
the recent world premiere of Deus Ex Machina, a live,
choose-your-own-adventure performance that gives total control of
the play*s storyline to the audience via SMS messaging.<br /><br /> Written and directed by Liz Fisher, Deus Ex Machina rips characters
from Greek mythology and throws them into a gladiator ring. Through
the power of Zeus, the audience is transformed into gods and battle
it out like clashing titans to determine the fates of the infamous
characters of the House of Atreus: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra,
and Orestes. <br /><br /> This malleable roller-coaster of a narrative ultimately tracks to 1
of 12 potential story lines, plus even more opportunities to
exercise dramatic omnipotence for 12,288 possible experiences.
Robert Matney, technology designer, and a small team created the
digital backbone of Deus, affectionately called Mount Olympus, which
served a branched cueing system that could also display real time
voting results for this ground breaking theatrical production.<br /><br /> Katherine Catmull, who appeared in Deus Ex Machina as Clytemnestra,
will be leading the discussion.<br /><br /> Bios follow...
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.479: Richard Gehr, "I Only Read it For the Cartoons"http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/479/Richard-Gehr-I-Only-Read-it-For-page01.html
This week we welcome Richard Gehr, author of &quot;I Only Read It for the
Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists&quot;<br /><br /> Richard Gehr has been an editor at the Los Angeles Reader Spin
magazine, and MTV Interactive. His writing appears in Rolling Stone,
The Comics Journal, Spin, and elsewhere. He co-authored The Phish
Book with the popular Vermont quartet and Amazon/New Harvest
published I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most
Brilliantly Twisted Artists in October 2014. Gehr resides, as a
David Sipress cartoon once put it, in &quot;the Brooklyn arrondissement.&quot;<br /><br /> Interviewing Richard will be our own Ed Ward, &lt;captward&gt;:<br /><br /> Ed Ward has been involved with magazines -- as a staffer,
contributor, and founder -- since he was 18, which was when he
joined the staff of Crawdaddy! magazine in New York. Since then,
he's written for just about every American music magazine (including
Rolling Stone, Creem, and No Depression) and several in Britain,
Germany, and Japan. He's served on the staff of Rolling Stone, City
Magazine (San Francisco), Creem, and Checkpoint (in Berlin), and as
editor-in-chief of Metropolis (successor to Checkpoint) and b
(successor to Metropolis). He's also contributed to newspapers
(Austin American-Statesman, New York Times, Wall St. Journal) and
various books. His radio career includes 30 years as &quot;rock and roll
historian&quot; for Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, as well as several
years at JazzRadio Berlin hosting a popular show in English. He's
currently writing a social history of post-war popular music, Rock
And Roll Part One, for Flatiron Books, to be published in Fall 2016.
He would like it noted that most of the magazines mentioned above no
longer publish, and none of them had cartoons. Coincidence?<br /><br /> Welcome Richard and Ed!
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.478: Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow & Jon Lebkowsky: State Of The World 2015http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/478/Bruce-Sterling-Cory-Doctorow-Jon-page01.html
It's a new year and it's time for the 2015 edition of the State Of The World
discussion featuring Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. This year, they are
joined by special guest, Cory Doctorow.<br /><br /> All WELL members are welcome to post, and non-members can participate as
well. Just tweet your comments or questions to @TheWELL or email them to
inkwell at well dot com.<br /><br /> Thanks for joining us.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.477: Lauren Rosenfeld, "Breathing Room"http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/477/Lauren-Rosenfeld-Breathing-Room-page01.html
This week we welcome Lauren Rosenfeld to the WELL, to talk about her
new book, co-authored with Dr. Melva Green, &quot;Breathing Room, Open Your
Heart by Decluttering Your Home.&quot;<br /><br /> Lauren Rosenfeld, M.A., M.Ed, is a Soul Declutterer and a Spiritual
Treasure Hunter: Since childhood, she has been a spiritual intuitive
who is able to see spiritual lessons shining even in life's most
challenging situations.<br /><br /> This is Lauren's second book to guide readers toward finding miracles
within the mundane: &quot;Your To Be List&quot; was published in 2010. <br /><br /> Lauren blogs about everyday miracles and mysticism at lgrosenfeld.com.
She lives in Asheville, NC with her husband and their four children.<br /><br /> I, Julie Sherman &lt;julieswn&gt; will be doing the honors as interviewer.<br /><br /> Julie has been on the WELL since 2004, she grew up in a family of
packrats, but not hoarders, and has been a procrastinating declutterer
all her life.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.476: Sean Kay, The United States Confronts New Challenges in Ukraine and Russiahttp://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/476/Sean-Kay-The-United-States-Confr-page01.html
WE hare happy to welcome Sean Kay to Inkwell.vue:<br /><br /> Sean Kay is Robson Professor of Politics and Director of the Arneson
Institute for Practical Politics/International Studies at Ohio Wesleyan
University. He is also an Associate of the Mershon Center for
International Security Studies at the Ohio State University and a
Foreign Policy Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, D.C.
He is a leading expert on American foreign and national security policy
with a long career of working on European security issues in
particular. He has held previous positions as visiting professor at
Dartmouth College and at the Institute for National Strategic Studies
in the US. Department of Defense where he was also an advisor to the
Department of State on NATO policy. In 2007-2008 he was a member of
the informal group of foreign policy advisors to the presidential
campaign of then Sen. Barack Obama. He is the author of multiple books
including NATO and the Future of European Security (1998); Global
Security in the Twenty-first Century: The Quest for Power and the
Search for Peace (2005, 2011); Celtic Revival?: The Rise, Fall, and
Renewal of Global Ireland (2011); and the forthcoming America's Search
for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism
(2014).<br /><br /> Interviewing Sean will be Angie Coiro, &lt;coiro&gt; on the WELL.<br /><br /> Angie Coiro is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, host of
the syndicated In Deep radio show. Her work has aired nationally on
Mother Jones Radio on Air America, and on public radio. Bay Area
audiences know her from Live From the Left Coast/The Angie Coiro Show;
KCSM-TV*s *Spotlight!*; KQED's Friday Forum; KGO radio; and for many
years of news and traffic reporting around the dial. Angie co-founded
the Tech Connects interview series at The Tech Museum of San Jose,
currently in its second year. She has a parallel career as a voiceover
talent, represented by JETalent in San Francisco.<br /><br /> Welcome Sean and Angie
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.475: Fawn Fitter: A Story of Love and War from the Flea Markethttp://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/475/Fawn-Fitter-A-Story-of-Love-and-page01.html
<br /><br /> Fawn Fitter, &lt;fsquared&gt; has recently launched a new blog project:<br /><br /> &lt;http://a-certain-party-i-love.tumblr.com/&gt;<br /><br /> Fawn says of the project,<br /><br /> &quot;When I bought a box of old papers at a flea market in 2002, I planned to
sort through the contents and resell the most interesting bits on eBay ***
but that was before I realized that the box contained more than 100 love
letters dated 1940-1943, all in a single hand. I put them into chronological
order, began reading, and quickly realized I***d stumbled on something
wonderful: a love story that also included popular culture, left-wing
politics, and of course, the encroaching inevitability of World War II.&quot;<br /><br /> And about Fawn herself:<br /><br /> Fawn Fitter has been writing for a living for more than 25 years. She's
written hundreds of articles for publications ranging from Cosmopolitan to
Entrepreneur; one book, Working in the Dark, the first book about navigating
the workplace while coping with a mood disorder; and a lot of marketing copy
for the technology industry. A WELL member since 1992, she helped launch and
still hosts the Byline conference for freelance writers. She's also a
history buff, a flea market fan, and a nosy parker who would read everyone's
letters and diaries if she could. Which is why she's so excited about this
project.<br /><br /> You can find Fawn on twitter: @fsquared<br /><br /> And you can find out more about her professional life at:<br /><br /> &lt;http://fawnfitter.com/&gt;<br /><br /> Thanks for joining us, Fawn. I am super-excited about this project.
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.474: HYPHENATION 15: Hyphenation Returnshttp://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/474/HYPHENATION-15-Hyphenation-Retur-page01.html
Clementina burst through the swinging saloon doors, a cloud of prairie dust
rising behind her, as she re-
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:18:00 PDTinkwell.vue.473: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/473/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html
It's time for the 2014 edition of the state of the world conversation with
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. The WELL has hosted this conversation
every year since 2000, ranging free through the worlds of technology,
design, politics, high and low culture, and fashion.<br /><br /> Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, journalist, design theorist and
critic, and public speaker. Since he lives in Europe and travels the world
attending conferences and speaking, Bruce brings a high altitude broad
perspective to the table. Currently based in Serbia, he spends much of his
time on the road, and has a truly global perspective which you see in his
novels, nonfiction pieces, and his blog, &quot;Beyond the Beyond.&quot; In addition to
his novels, Bruce has focused on the cutting edges of digital/hacker
culture, climate change, global politics, and contemporary design. He
founded the Viridian Design movement, the Dead Media project, and is
currently fired up about the new aesthetic, augmented reality, and design
fiction.<br /><br /> &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_sterling&gt;<br /><br /> Jon Lebkowsky is a future-focused social polymath and lately skeptical
Internet maven. He's been a social commentator, gonzo futurist, media
analyst and critic, web consultant/developer, and online activist. He was a
cofounder of FringeWare, Inc., an early digital culture company/community,
and has worked with and written for bOING bOING, Mondo 2000, Whole Earth,
Plutopia Productions, Digital Convergence Initiative, Wireless Future, the
Society for Participatory Medicine, EFF and EFF-Austin, the WELL,
WorldChanging, SXSW, Social Web Strategies, et al. Lately he's part of a web
development cooperative, Polycot Associates, and cofounder (with Amber Case,
Tyger AC, and Patrick Lichty) of Reality Augmented Blog:<br /><br /> &lt;http://www.realityaugmentedblog.com/&gt;<br /><br /> &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lebkowsky&gt;
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